Tag: Novellas
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12 Books to Diversify Your Reading
Sometimes we can get in a reading rut and find it difficult to break out of our comfort zones. But it’s a good idea to shake things up every now and then and read an author or a genre we normally wouldn’t consider, if only for the benefit of expanding our view of the world.…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Strange Weather by Joe Hill
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill (2017) I agree with what Hill writes in his afterword about short novels: I am drawn to them more and more, especially in the horror genre, as they seem to be just the…
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Halloween Reading
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The crisp weather, the leaves turning, the light getting slantier–this is the perfect time to settle in with a spooky story, which happens to be my favorite kind of story. And even though Halloween is tomorrow, it’s not too late to get your spook on. Here are few…
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Recommended Reading: Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
I had been trying to recommend a new read each month, and I still fell behind on my recommendations. So of course I’m upping my goal to recommending a new read each week! Starting with this one… Does Ursula K. Le Guin write bad books? If so, I haven’t found them. While this collection of…
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Reading Journal: Beginning of April
It’s been over a month since I’ve posted a reading journal update. Most of my reading has lately not-so-inspiring–although I did enjoy reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor so much that I wrote a rather long response to it. Another post-apocalyptic book I enjoyed was Far North by Marcel Theroux. It is set in post-climate change Siberia and…
Shannon Turlington 